Time Team S04-E01 Maryland.Usa
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2013
- The series begins with an unusual transatlantic departure when Time Team follow in the footsteps of some of the first English settlers in America. The journey takes them to the historic landing site of St Mary's City, Maryland, where they join American experts to unearth some important finds and challenge some of their original theories.
“It isn’t the heat it’s the humidity” cracks me up. No one could ever guess how bad it is until you work outside in the middle of summer.
I like the conversation about the coffin. “Do you have coffins like this in England during this time?” “Don’t know, it’s not old enough to excavate”
Our "ancient history" is Engish recent history. It really weird to think about.
As a Yank, I would have hoped that the American hosts would have served their English guests something better than a mass-produced American beer at the end of the dig. I winced at watching poor Phil, after suffering through that suffocating heat and humidity, having to choke down a watery and flimsy Michelob. The man deserved a right, proper ale. 😂😂😂
Just discovered Time Team and it's already one of my favorite shows of all time. And there is so much to unpack in this episode..."Mary Land", Phil's delight firing the flint rifle, Tony's frustration with our slow methods, the heat and humidity getting everyone down, the fact that I live within driving distance of this site...thank you, Time Team!
Poor Phil should have packed his cut off shorts for this one. Heat and humidity like we have is miserable for people who aren't used to it.
Ya know, I'm an American, and this is fascinating. I never knew where the phrase "Beyond the pale" came from. I had no idea a colonial boundary was called a 'pale' separating the settlement from the wilderness. If you go beyond the pale, you venture into danger. Every instance in which I've heard 'beyond the pale' used makes so much sense, now. I loved being enlightened like this about my own country's colloquialisms. Thank you. :)
You should read about The Pale as a place of exile for Jews and others in Eastern Europe. There is much, much more to the phrase than the American example.
We use the word 'Paal' here in the Netherlands for a pole.
I also never knew that.
american education is crap...most dont know much outside their own state, and your taught lies about your history
@Fred Garvin no one ever said it was or wasn't. Get triggered much?
Phil firing the flintlock was the best part of this episode.
I was surprised that there was so little smoke and flash from the frizzen pan when Phil touched it off. The first time I fired a flint lock there was a large flash and smoke at the frizzen and it startled me.
Phil would be thrilled to dig Native sites just for the flint tools alone.
As an American who loves Time Team, it is so odd to hear someone talk without a British accent. Sometimes I forget there is an accent, I watch I so much.
I was noticing exactly the same thing, also as an American. The American accents stood out as very weird. Though also most of them were quite different from my Northwestern-ish accent.
I caught that as well lol.
Travel around its just like there sometimes I can't understand my own peoples.....😅
This show really loves the word "Geophysics". It could make a great drinking game.
God I know! Over and over and over again.....
Phil's sheer elatement at firing that musket is great!
(Comments hat trick!) I've never seen so much Stewart in one episode! I just love him. He's pretty much always right, and it's amazing what he can discern just from looking at the ground.
And I love the way Tony wears his heart on his sleeve. He gets cross, he gets frustrated, he gets excited, he gets bored, and he's not afraid to show it at all. Love these guys!
+schradeya Stewart is my favorite too! He is obviously so into what he is doing.
schradeya you’re fooled by Tony whose job is to make this glob of Nothing seem exciting. He gets paid to do that-you don’t.
It's the first video where Tony isn't covered up in his oversized coats, shirts & pants! Always seems 2 sizes to big, but why oh why? Here he's sporting a gorgeous wee semi-gem earing, decent ball cap & his shirt fits him. Way cute Tony. I love the constant colourful striped sweaters Mick wears; and the doll that looks like him but No ONe Mentions it. lol
Leda Cedar Tony is the only professional actor of the cast/crew. A presenter with a little flair who asks the same kinds of questions that we would ask. “So, all I see is some dirt, You’re calling it a roundhouse because you think there was a hole there? If you say so.”
@@ChrisHyde537
A presenter who is also a good amateur archæologist and producer of the programme which he started with *Mick Aston* and *Tim thingy* (I've forgotten his name just for now).
Wow... the Americans are so stoic and reserved! Phil had to ASK if he was pleased!! I don't think I've ever seen him do that! Time Team are always so passionate and excited, especially when they find something like a wall, that nobody wonders. This episode is really interesting!
Lol not all are depends on what part of country you go
I found that funny too. We usually think of the Brits as staid and reserved and the Americans as whoop-it-up types. In this case, the stereotype was reversed. I think both teams were a bit tense around each other which was a shame. I also suspect the US guys knew little to nothing about Time Team, and perhaps if they did would've trusted them a little more. I was kind of sad that the joint effort ended up feeling a little stilted.
It’s Marylanders. We aren’t as dramatic as Yankees or Southerners. Lol. Also, MD is really hot & humid in summer, it will make you tired. Really intersting episode! I wish I had known a little back when it was being done! Been to St Marys City several times, I live about an hour & half away. Kinda hoped they’d end with a crab feast! That’s a classic Maryland summer activity. Time Team guys would have really enjoyed it. :)
the american looked like he was worried the wall would get scraps because of how hard Phil digs LOL
I live here!! my dad is friends with an archeologist and she let me spend a day with her and it was amazing! St Mary’s city is absolutely beautiful. It’s crazy how much beach there was back then. Not much now besides the college and a few small ones :(
As an American archaeologist one of the things that has always bothered me about Time Team is the fact that they don't screen the soil as it comes out of the hole. I find this episode hilarious because they seem to be frustrated that we do.
Isn't there also a technical reason for this? As they said in the UK there's often more layers of archeology to get to, and not as many finds in the topsoil compared to the US. So it makes sense to me that the approach is different in each area.
@@snazzypazzy This is variable depending upon the site, of course, but the Time Team group frequently finds materials in the top soil, they just pick it out of the spoil using metal detectors.
We do have multi-layered, and multi-component sites in the USA (keep in mind, people have been living here for 20,00 to 30,000 years), we seem to have a very different style of recovering artifacts.
Also, one may make the argument that stuff from the plow zone is not diagnostic, as it is not in situ, but we tend to want to recover as much as possible.
Not quite. TT does have people going through the spoil, but it doesn’t make such a meal of it.
Any idea if the fort theory panned out ?
I love to think that we were fortunate to have Phil knapping some flint right here in the USA. I'll have to find my way to that doorway. It was interesting to see the two different approaches to excavations.
that redhead guy was happy AF to finally dig hard in his life. He is probably used to use brushes and stuff like that, so he was clearly having the time of his life digging hard with Phil and actually finding something concrete.
Sad, as I am watching these episodes, the loss of Mick is great RIP
Awesome episode Time Team! Stewart is a smart dude! He knows his landscape and never underestimate that! Love the Time Team!
I just think it is funny how the heat is bothering them. Welcome to coastal Mid-Atlantic. But love the show and the haters go away so we can enjoy time team
Come to North Florida if you want to experience hot, humid, sticky and life-sucking weather.
@@eboracum2012, plenty hot and humid here in Maryland, too, but it doesn't last as long.
For me it is just intresting seeing how the two countries differ in their methods when it comes to archaeology.
And, of course, language. 😏
I think both sides could learn a bit from the other.
With how excited Time Team tends to get from finding small artifacts, the sifting method the Americans are using should be adopted, and not just seen as onlu useful because America has less archeology to find (which isn't true, Native American archeology is just as important as that of colonists, even more so actually as so little is known about the vast history of the first Americans.
perhaps due to Britain having a history that is tens of thousands of years old, whilst The USA is not as old as the toilet in my sisters house.
It's told that America is so strict about the digging because we have so little amount of artifacts to find because America is only 200 yrs old. England and Rome are 1000's.
@@tonytrott6318 I think you mean the history of the white world, not actual history. Think about it before you post things like this
Recently learned through both traditional Genealogy and DNA an ancestral link to the Calvert's who founded this settlement. I had previously watched this episode but knowing I can trace ancestors back to its origins gives this viewing even greater meaning.
My ancestor was your ancestor's enemy. William Claiborne. 😲
I don't know why but my comment didn't post. Anyhow, my ancestor tried to fight your ancestor over that territory. He either had established or planned to establish a trading outpost on Kent Island. I'm not sure because I only just realized through my family tree, and only recently started studying.
Then I happened to watch this, even though I've seen it several times and realized the connection. Peace!
Stewart is one smart Dude
Miller High Life and Michelob? Crikey we'll never live that down.
I'd love more archeology of my own State in Louisiana, mainly around the south and New Orleans. A few years back a person digging for a pool in the French Quarter found 2 bodies buried in their backyard. Though to be fair much of the Quarter is built on top of an old cemetery. No wonder the town is damn haunted. Lol
Most of my maternal ancestors first settled in the St. Mary's area from the British Isles in the 17th century. Love "Time Team" and their exploring the early archaeology of the colonies and links back to England.
I loved this. It was frustrating how slow it is compared to the usual progress but, being an Amdrican who has done archaeology here, I am pretty much used to it. But I wish we could go as fast as they do in Britain sometimes, lol. I love this show.
The US Mainstream Archaeologists have a tall attitude and are unnecessarily anal in their decisions, particularly here requiring, hand dig in hard Earth, in 100°, while making a proven Professional Team, of Peers, adjust their entire Production Rythm for a ditch and in a remote from the focal point area.
I can guarantee this stressed the entire Time Team Group, Production and Archaeologists. Those people spent their budget to travel to the USA and the "behavior, attitude, resisting to cooperate, and their Academic Ego reflects their very Human Ego absent of Higher Minded thought, (required for Mature Thought and the area were Wisdom resides. ( The very necessary subject should be a requirement for any Academic/Archaeologists that is planning to work in a University Setting and/or any Professional and Management Position.
This is a Prpfessional observation perspective by a Sociologist and Historian, USA.
To complete my thought I'm copying a section of a previous article I wrote.
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It is overly common and does not serve any of the Academic Professions, particularly those in University Settings in Roles of Decision Making and/or Teaching.
The very subject of Academia has an expectation of Wisdom, Intelligence, and Mature Mind. It requires "Conscious Thought" + "applied Higher Mind" to manage the Ego Mind aka Lower or Adolescent Mind.
It is why in the 21st Century the Mainstream Academics hold a 19th Century Theory as the focal Fact Foundation, from which they established a Paradigm and Timeline that they then force all info, artifacts, fossils, and History to fit within, and they defend their Story with Dogmatic behaviors.
This is in direct opposition to the very "Standards of Science and Research", which forbids ever using a Theory as Fact.
Their Theory and Paradigm days are numbered, as Studies and Research in Genetics/DNA, and Geology/Geophysics, that are Peer Reviewed has already sufficient data to prove the Darwin Theory, specific to Modern Humans, inaccurate, and their Theories specific to the Egyptian Great Pyramid and Sphinx, this further has an impact on several of the major Ancient Sites ion Central and South America, Turkey, and more.
I expect it will be within the next couple of years that the Peer Reviewed Facts will gather more and the Momentium to force these subjects and the entire House of Cards will fall.
It is an unimaginable thought that Academics particularly in University Roles, Science, have allowed Archaeology such latitude not allowed any other discipline, to write Era Chapters of History based on a Theory and while ignoring Peer Reviewed Journal Published Science fact for over 20 years in several cases and the more recent DNA works have remained family in its Science Peer Review Form, i.e., it has not been summarized and released in any News Media, the limited known value remaining with a limited few in Science and specific interests.
The findings prove that Modern Humans have a 200,000 History and DNA exhibits observable intervention.
Explained:
Previous no-pedal Species have no genetic link to Modern Humans, there are only "added DNA", meaning through mating, but not hereditary lineage, the Neanderthals and Denosivans. Cromagnon have been listed as Modern Humans with little variance.
Modern Humans are the only species with 46 chromosomes, the remaining animals are 48, chimps included.
Evolving physically doesn't lose chromosome or relative level factors, they would gain/advance rather that reduce.
Intervention rather than Evolution is the realized outcome. (No one wants to take that on at present, but it will eventually be made Public.)
Cognitive Dissonance is the label we Sociologists apply to the result of this type of information realized.
It will be fine and we will adjust, as it largely is only really the Academics that will react.
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Awww I love how Tony says "Mary- Land". 🤣❤
@Fred Garvin not by the residents.
Cute episode. I'm an underwater archaeologist, but of course I'm trained terrestrially as well, and I've worked in the US and Europe. Every site is different and yes, Americans are more careful with the plow zones, but the methodology and theory is the same everywhere, adjusted for time period. Some dry nautical sites in the US will use cats to remove the top layers of a deep site, depending on conditions, so this isn't unheard of here - I've worked on one such site in Michigan. As for screening, yes, most of the spoil/matrix is screened on a terrestrial site to locate small finds and botanical remains - but I've also worked on a site in Greece where we did the same and my husband worked on sites in England where he did the same, so it's site-specific. It shouldn't have slowed down the Time Team much, though, since screening can be done after they left. The size of test trenches varies, too, by the rules of the State where you're working - for us they can be as large as 2 meters by 2 meters, although we've never opened a trench that large, ever, and often shovel testing is the norm on dry sites for testing. So, we all have the same goals and I think the Americans and UK-ers got along great. I think they needed more cool drinks, though.....
+Ann MN ty ann...my first name is ann.....I am so glad you took the time to share your info...bless you and your hubby for doing what yall do. Nebraska USA>
where in Michigan did you dig? I live north east of Traverse City.
lol. At first I thought you meant pet cats. Could see a pompous british guy yelling, scratch faster Tibby! Faster!
One of the things they discovered at St. Mary's City is that things don't move much in the plow zone. They'll go up and down, but not much side to side. And plow zone is where most of the artifacts are in that area.
Fascinating. I live outside Baltimore and have spent a lot of time in this area. I was so excited to see Time Team was here.
HOLD UP! Did I see a stuffed Mic doll in the computer room?!? like 15:00 in
I didn't know that Time Team had come to America. Look how young everyone is! Wish they could have come more times.
Time Team did come to the US at least two other times: once to Jamestown, Virginia and the other to Montana to dig dinosaur bones.
Tiny little ‘ships’ to cross the Atlantic. Amazing really.
Back when tv was worth the licence fee
Not me, brother. Those were some hard people.
I love TT and how they compared their style to ours. I have an obsession with England, would love to go and explore their country.
My dream is to go to England; when I was little I had posters of castles on my walls instead of boys. Until I went to Germany at age 23, I had never seen a building older than two hundred years with my own eyes.
Reads comments below.
Doesn't give a fuck about what anyone down there has to say.
Continues watching Time Team enjoying the day.
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You couldn't said it any better.
Time Team is amazing. Haters are welcome to leave. Especially the confluence of ignorant haters that seem to congregate around high-quality scientific shows. Too intellectually demanding, I think.
+Dave Levinson ikr....it is awesome they investigate the influence of GB and etc in America.
I am an American and I love watching Time Team. Their crew that dives in and gets results in only three days is a fascinating concept. But I especially love this episode, putting our beloved Time Team diggers into trenches with my own countrymen on OUR soil. It is a great representative of why archaeology is so difficult in the United States. We have a habit of tearing down older structures and starting over, as opposed to the European way of integrating older building into newer ones, leaving behind something to study. Plus, our history doesn't go back nearly as far as it does in the UK, and what we have that DOES go further back are the remains of cultures that didn't build out of stone, brick, or mortar. They didn't even leave behind any records because they didn't have a written language.
Right. We tear down history...
I just started watching Time Team a couple of months back and I have to say I love it. I'm still getting used to the fact that Sir Tony had long hair and this episode I think is the first one I've seen with Carenza with short hair lol. I think Phil is the coolest and he'd be the first one I'd sit down and have a beer with. I was happy to see them come to the U.S. for this episode as I was born in Virginia and have family in Southern Maryland. I would really love to find an episode with them going to Virginia for a dig.
Robin, his stories and sence of humor, always bring me joy😀. Adore all of them🤩
Seems like the coffin was originally meant for someone else who was a head shorter and the carpenter was required to modify it quickly!
That's an interesting idea.
😀 As good a theory as any other.
@@animerlon Agreed. Less work than making extensions on the other end for each of his feet. 🙂
Was great to see the professional/cultural differences highlighted; as well as watching TT wilting in the heat...
Fantastic episode. Poor Phil, in that godawful heat. It's like that down here in Virginia in the summer, too, I know exactly how he felt. Thanks SO much for uploading all these; I've only just discovered Time Team in the past month and am trying to ration them out, one or two a day, as I know the show has been canceled. I'm glad they made so many, I still have loads to look forward to! :)
They are bringing it back. Officially
Central Illinois can also get brutal heat waves with humidity in the 90%. I think a lot of the Americas are like this.
It's called a "Chesapeake Summer", During the war of 1812, when the British burned DC, and marched on Baltimore...the most common complaint, and the second biggest killer behind muskets, was the heat and humidity.
America is a different beast, in terms of climate....Britian and Europe in general, have much more stable and less variable weather, than most of the US.
@@sharimullinax3206 Yes, but in Illinois, it's a "heat wave". In Maryland and Virginia, it's "summer".
I've lived in both, and in N. Virginia the summer mantra was "hazy, hot & humid" for a good 10 weeks straight, every day. Very scenic area & a lot of history, but there's a reason I left that part of the country.
Y'all can add both Carolinas, Georgia and Florida to the hotter than hell in the summer list. It's like walking around wrapped up in wet wool blanket. Someone should have given Phil a pair of scissors to cut the legs off those jeans. Poor guy, he looked so pitiful out there.
Poor, starving American archaeologists! At least that's how I think of US archaeologists, especially as compared to UK guys: starving! I really liked Tony's assessment. We have so little archaeology on our continent, compared to theirs, that we do indeed treasure every pebble! It's amazing to me to watch them just dump backhoe buckets out and never look through it, on other TT episodes! When I first started watching TT, I wondered, where are their sieves? Why aren't they looking at anything?
Obviously we DO have archaeology here - this land was inhabited long before the Europeans came, and there is some fucking *fascinating* stuff here - but it's all so spread out that we can't just go driving site to site every week and find mind-blowing things left and right the way they do. The differences are fascinating to see! :)
I didn't think I would enjoy this episode since they were guaranteed not to find anything 1000-2000 years old like they do at home, but it turns out the interactions and differences between the archaeologists themselves is quite entertaining enough!
schradeya Evidently they've never been to the Southwest or Mexico. Maybe they should try some places in South America. Or the Mississippian mounds in the Midwest of the USA. We Europeans are not the only ones to to hit the shores. Even the Vikings got to Newfoundland and other points in America in 1000 AD.
Thought the same thing all along--how can these Brits go after the dirt with backhoes? The lack of "old" archaeology all over the place is incidental to something of more interest here in the States: microfinds of all sorts can be found in our soils. Yes, there are finds from First Nations people and their ancestors, and yes, there are bits of post-European history, but what's really valuable is the data you can get from things like pollen, or sediment types, or microfossils. With land that hasn't been plowed for thousands of years, homogenized over and over, there are spectacular biological and geological discoveries in the soil layers that can tell us tails of climate and evolution. It's not all just human-centered science at work.
Unless you've worked in archaeology over seas, you've no idea how thin on the ground US _historic_ archaeology is comparatively. Prehistoric archaeology is a different story and US archaeology is actually geared to prehistoric work. US archaeologists also usually have a degree in Anthropology rather than Classics or Theology. Also, there is a profound methodological difference. A majority of Old World archaeology involves architecture and the methods used are really different. And as Tony remarks, US archaeologists screen ("sieve") everything, so lots of small fragments are recovered. Another point they missed is that in the US we lean to excavating in "levels" usually either 10 centimeter or six-inch lifts. You work over there and you need to gaurd your Marshalltown because it rings as you use it. You'll have people drifting up remarking about "how musical" it sounds.
Speaking from experience, he's totally right.
It's actually ridiculous how dense finds are outside the new world/Australia.
As a professional archaeologist in the US, i agree 100%, the Brits are big babies when it comes to the heat though.
BTW, Hope TT had some Maryland Crab Cakes while visiting. They are delicious, like Salmon Patties but with Crab, celery, onion, sweet peppers chopped, and its so sweet delicious.
I'm from Maryland, and I've been to St. Mary's. This is awesome and I learned so much!
Lord Calvert arranged for many "recusant English Catholics" to come to St. Mary's in the 17th century. They left England to escape religious persecution but were still subject to same prejudice once they were settled in Maryland. Good episode.
Not quite right there, Rick. The Catholics were the ones doing the persecuting of other religions. They were responsible for all manner of foul play, murders, bribery, assassination attempts and the Gunpowder Plot. All because they believed that basics tenets of the Church of England were "wrong".
Eventually, everybody had had enough of catholic persecution, popular opinion was dead against Catholics in general, who ended up having to flee for their lives.
So, basically, the Catholics weren't allowed to persecute anyone here. So they went somewhere where they could freely persecute anyone they liked (or didn't like) without hindrance.
A great start to a "new nation", eh?
And then...ethnic cleansing on a scale Hitler would have been jealous of.
Aaaahhh. All that death and destruction in the name of the god of love.
Glad it's different now, though, eh?
CloneDaddy A lot of hate and ignorance and half-truths. Catholic persecution in England was BRUTAL. there is blame to go around on all sides.
In the face of the nit-pick bashing posted here I wonder if anyone notice the Mik Aston doll ? Lighten up folks. I'm just glad that the Native American sights go largely untouched so far, and hope that whenever they Are found and excavated we have people like these around to help ! Especially Phil !
That's another reason for caution and shallow digs.
Time Team, before t.v. became a wasteland of Kardashian and Big Brother.
Time Team’s Stewart Ainsworth was right? Fort site found!
& Ancient Aliens
Continuous real smiles, very very interesting, and important especially for our US cousins, for St. Mary's, and the fort.
It was good to see the crew cross the pond. As always enjoy it all.
Phil can knap a little flint as a reward.
This is cool they came to America. I love this show just found it- we need shoes like this!! This is so good for kids as well as adults LOL. We all can use to learn some history. Lol glad they came here very cool to see it
This is hilarious! II'm from California and watching the Brits interacting with us Tanks is great. Phil's comment about the musket "cor, what a cracker!"... Awesome!
That heat broke Phil down haha
Right. Lol I! I live in central Florida! 🦩🌴🌅🥵🌡️🐊
Its funny to me that the contrast in personalities here is the English Time Team saying, "Okay! Let's Rock 'n' Roll!" and the Americans are straightening their bow ties and saying, "Erm, there are certain calculations and precautions we like to take before taking any unwarranted action."
We Americans always like to think of ourselves as the cool, teenagers who play guitar and wear shades, but Phil was ready to kick out geeky ass. XD
Leopararouen
Oh, I didn't forget, that just happens to describe me to a tee. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be binge watching Time Team, lol.
I was just thinking of it from the stereotype American perspective. We're those 80s cool kids with bleach blonde hair and a letter-man jacket. The type that can't believe those nerds got so popular somehow. The (American) football rools and science druels kind of crowd, lol.
Sorry about your ex. :(
Leopararouen That sounds awesome! XD
I just missed the 80s, I was a teenager in the 90s. I was the classic "kid who ruined the grading curve" nerd, and I knew I was never going to be in the "in" crowd, so I embraced my fellow outcasts and I think we did pretty well for ourselves.
By time I hit high school, comic books and anime was just starting to become cool, so there was actually a thing I had up on the "cool kids", lol.
Why can't you just enjoy and learn from these episodes
instead of getting all bent out of shape by peripheral issues?
St. Mary's is a fascinating and important early city.
Exactly Marnie. The third grade like quibbling over "we are better than you, na na na na na na!" is silly. Everybody is from some where, let's get the job done!
Marnie Sweet 'And it's just down the road from me!. Cracked me up to see the Brits laid low by the humidity!
KYIRISH1 , J&B with a Killian's back!
+Marnie Sweet Sorry, I had to take on his myopia, selective memory, and that he forgot the slaughter of First peoples and the conquering of their land. One, if not Vietnam or the destruction of Japanese cities,, or the current violence in the Middle East, of our greatest collective crimes and one we should be ashamed of and try to make up for in our lives government policies. Why don't we have to apologize if Japan does?
The Japanese asked for it the genocide of the first peoples was certainly criminal. Vietnam was just stupid wasting money to support a corrupt government, and the Mid East is just the unending "Battle of the Cousins"
They claim a shared heritage, Abraham and have been at each other's throats since the dawn of history!
I love that they came to America
March 26 2022 there will be a Maryland day event which they will disclose the official findings of the Forts location and history. I am unsure if where the time team dug was the fort site. The site was discovered in 2018 using newer magnetometry equipment.
Drar Mr. Vergason, Do you have mire specifics of the "March" event to which you made reference?
I already knew about "half cocked" and "flash in the pan", but I learned about "beyond the pale" from this one.
OMG, Time Team was actually HERE!! SWEET!!! I wish I would of seen all this so many years ago here and been able to afford to go there to meet them all.. I am a direct descendant of Isaac Allerton, whom came over on the Mayflower in 1620, and My 8th Great Grandfather, Richard Cantril came over as a indentured servant to William Penn!. The American Head Archeologist was a slow as a snail and didn't really want to do anything, it seemed. God bless the Time team and all that they TRIED to do. Phil found Stewarts Fort, that apparently That guy Henry didn't really want to believe that Stewart, an guy form OVER THE POND Could find when they couldn't and I personally didn't really appreciate the bit of down play towards Stewart on his find...UNTIL it was actually found by Phil!... WTG TT!!! Bravo!. Really should go to visit Plymouth Maryland, where the FIRST landings occurred, and where My 8th Great Grandfather came in on in 1620:-), and also visit down in Jamestown, where they are STILL digging around down there in Virginia.
Time Team actually came to the USA a couple more times. Time Team Special #8 "Dinosaur Hunting" had Phil coming over to Montana to take a look at the archaeological work in the dinosaur fossil fields. Then in Time Team Special #27 "Jamestown: America's Birthplace" the focus shifts back to the Mid-Atlanta colonial area.
Wheee! Y'all came over here. What fun.
Had no idea that that was how a flint lock rifle worked! Cool beans
Well this was a nice surprise. I went to St. Marys College and sailed the Dove as a Quartermaster. Many a friend worked on the digs as volunteers during the summer or donned the garb of an living interpreter.
Proud to have Time Team in the states!!!!
Years ago i encountered a man from England We both did basically the same work on renovating and maintenance of old houses. I was bitching about having to do some work on a 120 year old house that was being a nightmare. He laughed and said I wish i could do more 100 year old houses . He told me the last job he worked on was a house that was about 600 years old !! And had worked on buildings much older than that! In fact he had come over to help put a thatch roof on a house for someone.
Thats when I realized how much more history they had over America.
Ah, but American history is truly fascinating, although there is less of it. One thing that tickles me about America is the notion that it was founded as an entirely new kind of sovereign state in this world, following your Revolution - one where the liberty and equality of the common man was paramount.
That was such a departure from the "old world" of the times and you know what? - you guys and your ancestors made it work pretty good!
@@stewartw.9151 It's not a 'common man' thing, it's simply the freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the collective.
I use the term "common man" in contrast to the aristocracy etc who ran England not too long ago - they were the "collective" that was done away with in America. Some say there is still too much of that in Britain!
@@stewartw.9151 Quite true. The lack of class hierarchy/stricture was a big part of it. The concept of upward mobility didn't really exist before. Equal access to the marketplace gave people the freedom to become who and what you desired.
Thank you for helping us here int the USA. Absolutely love your show. Just discovered your show 3-20-2021.
Going to watch all of them.........👍👏💚🧡
OMG! Time Team came to the USA! Awe ... 💯
(The USA Mainstream Archaeologists are really anal Academics. *Having to Hand Dig hard earth to find the Ditch, in a remote area, by an Earth Work, is absolutely a validation on my perspective.* Phil gets kudos for not telling them to Kiss his arse!).
These Academics are actually far more haughty than any natural born British. (... and Americans think Brits are the "Stuffed Shirts") I'm howling! "As a Chicago born Irish American", I must give our "Time Team" British Professionals an Enthusiastic High 5 for their Authentic Style,* 🏆
*I just love this "bunch of Brits!"* 😘
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Stewart with the backwards basebal cap is hilarious.
The thug life chose him XD
Smart move👌🏼 so his neck wouldn't get sunburned too much.
eeeyup I know the humidity thing very well because I live some 30 miles north of this site. You can sweat like a pig when the temp is 70 on a humid summer morning. "It leaves one in a continual state of inelegance."
Having always lived in the not-South, I've heard a lot of criticism about Southern accents. I point to this episode as a reason why people should get over it. IT'S HOT AND HUMID. Who would want to even speak quickly, much less move quickly in that heat?
I went to St. Mary's College, 1972. Memories come flooding back.
Having an American Archaeologist for a wife, and having been on a few digs myself in the US (OBX, NC & Fort Caswell, NC) I so totally get the frustrations of the British Archaeologists with the almost pedantic methods of the US. That said, it's not always necessary to sift all the soil until the habitation layer has been revealed! These guys were rather too cautious, methinks.
This is very interesting for me being a direct descendent of Lord Baltimore. Fascinating that they only brought one lass on the initial boat. I presume that there were other boats in a quick amount of time.
I am a direct descendant of leonard calvert also. Small world isnt it?
Only one single lady. Looking at the passenger list, it looks like there were 3 women of the 128 who arrived. (12 died after drinking too much (maybe the wine was bad?) on Christmas Day on the trip over, don't know if any of those were female).
@@tinaredington1292 Last I looked there were lots of descendants including several celebrities.
@@aj_aka_alan very true. Its a tree with a lot of branches
They did not say she was the only woman. They said she was the only Gentlewoman. It's a "class" distinction.
My favorite part of this episode is seeing the old Michelob and Miller High Life bottles at the end of the episode.
I wonder if Phil refrained from wearing his short shorts out of deference to his hosts. It was more than hot enough for them. 😃
He probably didn’t want to be embarrassed in front of the Americans 😂
I bet the poor guy wished he had packed those shorts this trip. He did wear them when he and Tony went to the southwest to dig for dinosaur bones.
@@deborahparham3783 I bet he did. Haven't seen the southwest one (yet😄). Wonder if it was before or after this.
It was not southwest, they were in Montana. It was an Absolute History Time Team special. Not sure of the date but they are a bit older than they were on the Maryland dig.
@@deborahparham3783 Now that you mention it, Montana makes more sense if dinosaurs are involved. I'm curious now, so will track it down to watch. Thanks for mentioning it's an AH special, makes it easier to find.
If Phil wore his short-shorts in Montana, he may have found his hosts were uncomfortable with his attire & decided not to bring them when they went to Maryland. On the other hand, he could have just forgot to pack them & i'm just blowing hot air. 😂
Sweet potatoes and yams with butter and a little bit of sugar black pepper and salt so good. Butternut squash is unbelievable the same way.
Thank you for posting all these awesome videos! 👍🏼😉
This show is a treasure!!
My ancestor Mareen Duvall (born Marin Du Vall in France) came to the province of Maryland in 1650 and died a wealthy man with a large amount of land. He was married 2 or 3 times and had at least 13 children A copy of his will still exists.
Yea,...... and my cousin Tony Duvall, (born Tonisio Duvally in IL), died a unheathy man, with a little amount of land, gave me four joints from his Aculpoco Gold in 1976, was married 2 or 3 times, fathered more kids than Moses. No copy of his will exists, and never did. TAKE THAT Lisa P.
There is a Duvall road in Howard County Maryland.
Perhaps my favorite episode! Lots of fun!
37.7°C. That's quite hot.
Not just the Indians teaching the colonists how to plant corn and survive for the winter they also taught them about weed how to grow it and how to smoke it 💪🏻💪🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻.
The late 90s when this was aired seems so far away now. We change so fast now , it was a different world just back then. Maybe a better one
Omg are we (Americans) behind the times archiologicaly speaking with these digs. Glad to see Tony and the team here.
If they think Maryland is hot, try seiving red clay in South Carolina! We went through multiple pairs of gloves every day.
Archeology and archeologists are just wonderful. 👍👏
my favorite Time Team episode yet!! my ancestors were right there!!
Being from this particular state, there is a vast feeling of home and my childhood. I love the time team crew and the USA crew learning style knowledge .experience with and especially the comparisons and contrasts of British and American archaeology. Once the bitterest of foes, we are the closest of friends,, making this episode that much special. Thanks for uploading this, the whole series is fantastic.
Phil would have made an excellent revolutionary soldier.
Living across the River in Northumberland County, Virginia; I’m one who often wondered in the summers how in the world our early settlers and later ancestors managed to survive the heat and humidity.
... and with all the mosquitoes and flies in the heat too. Especially here in Florida where alligators, panthers, and snakes are added to the equation.
And in all the layers of clothes (woolen?) they wore then.
There was just as much wilderness in Southern Maryland in 1996 as there was in 1634. It's interesting to see how much it has developed in SMC.
Brilliant!
Rock hard gravel clay dirt, lovely stuff.
great observation cleaver.
It makes me feel good that members of our Mother Country (England) is coming to help we Americans to discover our heritage.
We have consanguinity with the Brits, but we were pretty much left to govern ourselves.
The single woman was the preachers daughter and also a relative of mine.
I love watching this show. As an American sometimes their accents are hard to understand so i decided to turn on the Closed Captioning. Leave it at default setting of {English - Auto-generated} and have a chuckle. It can get hilarious.
The Governour's Mansion is here:
N 38° 10' 58.429'' W 76° 25' 22.097''
(38.182897, -76.422805)
I've now taken to looking down the comments for you so that I can look the place up on Google Maps. You're efforts are appreciated.
@@diogenesesenna9323 Thanks, I'm watching it (during the lockdown of 2020) for the third time and the technology has changed enough that I can post a HTML Google link directly to the site now: goo.gl/maps/7Ex4tvF7GcsoThrm6
@@stannousflouride8372 Thanks muchly for taking the time & making the effort.
This is awesome. My son-in-law's ancestors were early Catholic immigrants to St Mary's City.
Thanks so much for posting
4:04 Chris is on a mad dash to the local Radio Shack.......
I miss Radio Shack.
Really enjoyed this episode, especially being an American.
I have watched every time show at least 2 times